As Eurocopter presses ahead with development of its X3 technology demonstrator with a view to introducing the radical high-speed technology commercially in six years, the key challenge is not ...

Eurocopter is bringing its X3 experimental hybrid helicopter demonstrator to the United States this month for a summer tour that could include a visit to a town near you. The first stop will be ...

Like the Sikorsky X2, it has no tail rotor – so the pitch of the left and right propeller blades subtly adjust automatically in flight to maintain stability and to provide steering, says Billig, but ...

Eurocopter is claiming to have beaten Sikorsky’s X2 unofficial speed record by reaching 263 kt. in a dive with its X3 high-speed demonstrator. During trials in early June, Eurocopter test pilots ...

Rolls-Royce helicopter engines president Ken Roberts today confirmed to Flightglobal that the company’s RTM322 turboshaft engine is the “engine of record” for a new Eurocopter programme dubbed “X3”.

NEW DELHI — Eurocopter will give the first public flight presentations of its X3 hybrid helicopter demonstrator and EC175 at the 2011 Paris air show. Eurocopter also will show off at Le Bourget its ...

17 May 2011, 09:20 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache // Eurocopter has today taken the wraps off the first product from “Mercedes-Benz Style”, as the EC145 helicopter has had its world premiere at the ...

The race to own the skies is getting faster. Eurocopter revealed this week it has developed a hybrid helicopter that can go 220 knots per hour after rival Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. took its new hybrid ...

The Eurocopter X3 has set an unofficial helicopter world speed record of 255 knots in level flight, slightly faster than the 250-knot top speed achieved by the Sikorsky X2 compound helicopter in 2010.